[Dev] remove DBC files and make life easily for everyone

[antz]

But there is problem, not all dbc files/params are known, so devs will often turn to dbc for advice.

Only the known fields are used by the core, so these fields will always be imported. The unknown fields can still be imported by the devs if they need to.

[antz]

Keyword "unknown fields can still be imported" = pain in the butt for devs... At now for them all good. But if implement only part, everything becomes bad... That's where I'm going. For those who just clone repositories & compile core it would be awesome of course, because it decreases the amount of things to do. Developers all the way around, if you make only a part of it.

The way i'm designing the system, the default is to include every field from all DBC's plus all the data. If the fields are unknown then Mangos will not be using them. Once the use is figured out, they can be easily wired in.

Also nothing is hardcoded in AD.exe, all settings are controlled via a config file.

[lillecarl]

This is out of my league, but i hope to see this in mangos repos soon!

[alexluana_]

this gets so interesting

[antz]

if your interested the latest version of my AD.exe modifications is located at :-

git://github.com/billy1arm/server.git

Milestone One of this mini-project is complete.

There are extra options added to ad.exe for extraction to SQL and CSV files.

My question is this, should I submit this to master at this point since it adds additional functionality or wait until i've completed the next 2 milestones?

[Unkle Nuke]

Most definitely submit this! As TheLuda has said, "Commit early, commit often." is how development cycles in MaNGOS should be done, even if it means the code is still a work-in-progress.

This is done for two reasons...

To keep code from being unecessarily delayed or withheld.

To let developers more easily maintain their projects by having core changes made more accessible.

At the very least, your work could be forked into a branch for testing if you submit it.

[michalpolko]

There's no "Thank you" button, so: thank you Antz for your work

[antz]

my fork is here: git://github.com/billy1arm/server.git

I would appreciate people giving it a good test, especially unix guys.

- This release is configured for Cata.

I will prepare the configs for other releases over the next few days (since it's one exe for all releases now, only the config options change)

[alexluana_]

ty Antz... I hope cmangos will apply this 2